Devised by former teacher turned playwright, John Godber, this 10-part BBC2 drama series from Pebble Mill focussed on a collection of staff members working in an impoverished, yet typical comprehensive school – the David Lloyd George School – which was struggling to maintain educational standards.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
Rated 7.1 on TMDB
Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
The ins and outs of the classroom lives of a group of students who attend the fictional Hartley High School in Sydney.
Rated 8.3 on TMDB
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.
Rated 7.1 on TMDB
Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.
Rated 7.6 on TMDB
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
